Exiled for 2,000 years God must retake the Earth from the clutches of his nemesis using a man caught between life and death as His vessel.
God is in exile. The only man who can help is clinically dead. Herb Asher, an audio engineer by trade, is in suspended animation following a car accident that appears to have taken his life. As he floats in cryonic suspension he awaits his new spleen and dreams back through the last six years of his life which reveal much of his bizarre journey and the battle with Belial, the force of evil that will stop at nothing to achieve its goal.
Episcopal bishop Timothy Archer is haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress, and must cope with the implications of the discovery of a religious artefact. These events drive him into a quest for the identity of Christ.
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is Philip K. Dick's last completed novel and a learned, moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief.
Dreams, nightmares and realities: a classic by the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
What begins as an ordinary laboratory visit turns into a bizarre and apocalyptic experience when a particle-light beam slices across the visitors' paths, plunging them into different worlds constructed from their innermost dreams and fears. As emergency works scramble to free them from the wreckage, their minds begin an incredible journey through one fantastic shared world after another.
In The Skull, legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick explores the paradoxes of fate, identity, and time travel in a haunting and thought-provoking narrative. Convicted criminal Conger is given one final mission: travel back in time and assassinate the mysterious Founder before his doctrine of peace can reshape the future. Armed only with a futuristic weapon and the Founder’s skull as a means of identification, Conger’s journey becomes a tangled confrontation with destiny. As past and future blur, and questions of mortality and self arise, Conger makes a shattering discovery—he is not the killer, but the legend himself.
Originally published in 1952, The Skull is a powerful example of Dick’s ability to fuse gripping plot with metaphysical inquiry, leading listeners through a suspenseful loop of cause and effect, where the hunted becomes the prophet, and death may be the key to immortality.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
In a drab, utilitarian future, such arts as ceramic repair hold little value. Humble pot-hearler Joe Fernwright is broke and bored when the offer from the Glimmung comes along. It might just be the answer to both his financial and spiritual problems, even if it does mean working on a strange project on Plowman's Planet with other assorted odd creatures.
The only thing is that the Glimmung may just be divine and ask for more than Joe's commitment to the job . .
Ten Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
- Time Enough At Last by Lynn Venable
- Breakfast at Twilight by Philip K. Dick
- Inheritance by Edward W. Ludwig
- Homecoming by Miguel Hidalgo
- Proof of the Pudding by Robert Sheckley
- The Star by H. G. Wells
- Not a Creature Was Stirring by Dean Evans
- The Spy in the Elevator by Donald E. Westlake
- The Enormous Word by William Oberfield
- The Moon is Green by Fritz Leiber
This is a well written Sci-Fi thriller / Martian novella with interesting and quite well developed characters. The story line is complicated and fast moving with lots of twist and turns leading to the extremely satisfying conclusion so sit back and enjoy a fun ride as you listen. In 'The Crystal Crypt,' war between Terra (the new name of Earth) and Mars looms as one of Mars's great cities was destroyed. The tension builds from the start; who destroyed the city? How did they do it? Why did they do it? Enjoy a great storyteller show us how it is done.
Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead—that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect.
Breakfast At Twilight by Philip K. Dick - It’s distinctly ungood to wake up in the middle of a war. Anybody knows that.
Philip K. Dick, an iconic figure in science fiction literature, captivated readers with his visionary and often mind-bending narratives. Dick explored themes of reality, identity, and perception throughout his prolific career. His works, including 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' (which inspired the film 'Blade Runner'), 'Ubik,' and 'The Man in the High Castle,' challenged conventional notions of existence, blurring the lines between the real and the surreal.
Dick's writing was characterized by its philosophical depth, psychological insight, and prophetic vision of a future shaped by technology and societal upheaval. He delved into the nature of consciousness, questioning what it means to be human in a world increasingly dominated by machines. Dick's own tumultuous life, marked by personal struggles and existential crises, often found expression in his fiction, adding layers of complexity to his narratives.
Despite struggling with mental health issues, Dick's creative genius continued to shine, earning him a devoted following and posthumous recognition as one of the most imaginative and influential writers of the 20th century. His legacy endures, inspiring readers and writers alike to ponder the mysteries of existence and the boundaries of reality.
'Adjustment Team' is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Orbit Science Fiction (September–October 1954, No. 4) with illustration by Faragasso.
A man called the Clerk approaches a talking dog, and explains in businesslike manner that 'Sector T137' is scheduled for 'adjustment' at 9 o'clock. He instructs the dog to bark at exactly 8:15, which the Clerk explains will summon 'A Friend with a Car', which will take real estate salesman Ed Fletcher to work before 9, but while the Clerk is preoccupied, the dog falls asleep and as a result barks a minute too late. Inside Ed's house, while he is getting ready for work, Ed is accosted by a door-to-door insurance salesman and doesn't leave for work until 9:30. Ed arrives at his office building, but upon stepping onto the curb, finds himself in a sunless version of the world where everything and everyone is immobile, ash-grey, and crumbles at his touch. Ed is accosted by white-robed men, who talk about 'de-energizing' him with a hose-like piece of equipment, but he flees outside and across the street, back to the everyday world, fearing he's had a psychotic episode...
'Meddler' is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Future Science Fiction, October 1954 with illustration by Virgil Finlay.
The technology called 'The Dip' is used by historians to observe and study historical phenomenon. Wood is showing Hasten a new version of the Dip that can look into the future. Hastern is horrified by this. Not only is it illegal to Dip into the future, it is extremely dangerous. Anything from the future brought into the present has the potential to radically alter future event. Wood explains that the damage has already been done.
Hasten has been brought in because he is the expert in the use of Dips for historical research. The future Dip was authorized earlier by the Political Science Council to predict the outcome of decisions and use began about one year earlier. To protect the future timeline, the Dip was designed to bring nothing back and only take photographs from high altitudes. The first reports from the future showed a world getting progressively better. Less urbanization and a happier population. But when they went back again to review earlier periods with the Dip, they found that the future has changed. There was now evidence of massive war. Moving forward again, the Dip revealed that all human civilization will be destroyed. To investigate why this happened and hopefully prevent it, they built a Time car that could send one person into the future. Hasten is charged with investigating the cause of the end of humanity.
'Human Is' is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Startling Stories, Winter 1955.
The plot centers on the crisis facing a woman whose cold and emotionally abusive husband returns from a survey mission to the dying planet Rexor IV, changed for the better—his psyche was replaced by a Rexorian, glad to have escaped the confines of its dying planet.
The story was adapted by Jessica Mecklenburg for an episode of the 2017 TV series, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.
